Special Broadcasting Service
Sign in to saveAlso known as SBS, sbs, SBS TV Australia, S.B.S., SBS Australia
Australian public radio and TV network
Key facts
- Company type
- Public service broadcaster
- Founded
- 9 June 1975 ; 51 years ago ( 1975-06-09 )
- Founder
- Fraser government
- Headquarters
- 14 Herbert Street, Artarmon , Sydney , Australia
- Area served
- Australia
- Key people
- Nicholas Pappas , (Chair), Jane Palfreyman, (Managing Director)
- Revenue
- $159.146 million (2024)
- Operating income
- $2.113 million (2024)
- Net income
- $1.558 million (2024)
- Total assets
- $353.253 million (2024)
- Total equity
- $243.738 million (2024)
- Owner
- Australian Government
- Number of employees
- 1,319 (2024)
- Divisions
- SBS Television , SBS Radio
- Website
- sbs.com.au
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Award
- Peabody Awards
- Field of work
- public broadcasting
- Country
- Australia
- Headquarters
- Sydney
- Owned by
- Australian Government
- Industry
- mass media
- Official website
- www.sbs.com.au
- Image
- Federation Square (SBS Building).jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Special Broadcasting Service
- Commons category
- Special Broadcasting Service
- inception
- 1978-01-01
- licensed to broadcast to
- Melbourne
- product or material produced
- radio
- social media followers
- 227627
- official jobs URL
- careers.sbs.com.au/job-search
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Encyclopedic overview
The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is an Australian hybrid-funded public service broadcaster that receives about 80 percent of its funding from tax revenue. SBS operates six TV channels (SBS, SBS Viceland, SBS World Movies, SBS Food, NITV and SBS WorldWatch) and seven radio networks (SBS Radios 1, 2 and 3, Arabic, SBS Chill, SBS South Asian and SBS PopAsia). SBS is also home to SBS On Demand; a video streaming service.
The stated purpose of SBS is "to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services that inform, educate, and entertain all Australians and, in doing so, reflect Australia's multicultural society". SBS is one of five main free-to-air networks in Australia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Special Broadcasting Service” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.